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    Airframe Family: Consolidated B-24/C-87/C-109 Liberator / PB4Y/P-4 Privateer
    Latest Model:Liberator GR.V
    Last Military Serial:599 RCAF
    Construction Number:1538
    Compressed ID:Consolidated Liberator GR.V sn 599...
    Latest Owner or Location:Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-24D-60-CO by Consolidated at San Diego, CA, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-40461.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n BZ734 as a Liberator GR.V.
    No RAF service.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 599 as a Liberator GR.V.

    Recovered.
    Salvaged from a farm in Canada.

    Transported by rail
    Moved from Canada to Ontario, California.

    To Yesterdays Air Force, Ontario, CA.

    Scrapped.
    The nose was retained.

    To Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, VA.
    Only the nose section survives here.
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    Markings Applied: 600

    1 March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March Air Force Base, CA in storage for David Tallichet.

    18 January 2013


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: At Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia

    Markings Applied: Grumpy
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